Top ten cricketers from Punjab

#6. Dinesh Mongia

Mongia was a perfect utility cricketer

A utility cricketer, ideal for the limited overs format, Dinesh Mongia served Indian cricket during the first decade of the 21st century by batting in the middle order and by bowling few overs as the fifth-bowler.

As a batsman, he was neither prolific nor technically perfect and his bowling was not probing either, but he worked on his limitations and became more than his sum of parts.

After playing 57 ODIs, he averaged 27.95 with the bat and also has 14 wickets to his name. His finest moment came in the ODI series against Zimbabwe in 2002 when he amassed 159 runs to win India the deciding game.